Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-04
EASTERN NEWS.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESTNxL.I
High links at o wake.

Murphy, who died at the Marihe
Hospital yesterday, was given a some
what remarkable wake last night.
Murphy's relatives, said to be very
wealthy, all live in San Francisco. In
their absence a self-appointed COM
mittee of the dead mans river ac-
ouaintances took charge of the re-
mains. The body was properly laid
out at the undertaker's shop, and great
numbers Of Murphy's old friends made
their way to the place early in the
evening. A supply OF stimulants, to
keep the mourners awake during their
long vigil was provided. A keg of
beer was tapped. AS the small hours
advanced, one OF the watchers, who
had partaken freely, stumbled against
the coffin supports. That end OF the
coffin fell from its stand to the floor,
and out slid the corpse, overturnlng a
table, and shaking down seven lighted
candles into the dead mans face. A
scene of the widest excitement en-
sued, which increased when it was
discovered that the clothing OF the
corpse was blazing, and a cremation
and confagration threatened. The
mourners, however, were equal to b
emergency, and after great confusion
put out the fire and righted the corpse
and the coffin. Affairs gradually
quieted down to such an extent that a
number Of the walkers fell asleep,
many dropping out of their chairs to
the floor. Then came the climax OF
the occasion. Collins were brought
out of the warerooms, and the sleep
ers. n after another put into them,
until there were seventeen men in the
cofins. When daylight broke not a
nan of them, however, failed to
straighten up enough to join the con-
course that followed the body to the
grave in the afternoon.
A Lady Found Dead ON Her Bed.
DENVER, Col, March 3.-Yesterday
afternoon a lady, very handsomely
attired, entered the Queen City Hotel
and registered by the name of Miss
Malmburg, Chicago. At supper time
she appeared at the table and seemed
in good health. After supper she re-
tired, and that was the last seen of her
alive. This morning, as she did not
appear in the dining room, a servant
went to her apartment, and knocked
repeatedly at the door, but failed to
obtain a reply. She appraised the land
lord of the fact, and a peep into the
room over the transom revealed the
stranger lying dead on her bed, fully
attired, as if she had laid down for
rest, and then died probably Of heart
disease. She had no baggage with
her, only a hand-satchel and a travel
ing shawl. In her pocket was found
ten dollars in cash, but nothing what
ever to establish her identity beyond
a postal card, bearing the words Miss
Malmburg.
Acts Approved by the President
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Presi-
dent to-day approved an Act to au.
thorize the President of the United
States to protect and defend the rights
of American fishing vessels, American
fishermen, trading and other vessels
in the British dominions of North
America. The Indian Appropriation
bill, etc., and to establish agriculture
experiment stations in connection
with the college established under the
Act of July, '62. An Act to provide
for the location and erection of &
Branch Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers west of the Rocky Mountains
An Act relating to Contested Elec
tions. An Act granting right of way
through the Indian Territory to the
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railroad
Two Negroes Lynched.
New ORLEANS, March ga special
to the Picayune from Yazoo City
Miss, gives the following account O
the lynching of two colored men al
at Sidon, Lefare county, last night,
Within the past two months two gin
houses, one cotton house, and more
than one hundred bales of cotton have
been burned in the neighborhood by
incendiary fires. Thomas and Terry
Mack, two notorious negroes, were ar.
| rested on Saturday, charged with the
crime, and were brought to trial be.
fore a Justice of the Peace. At the
trial the evidence was 80 strongly
against them that the citizens became
Infatuated, and last night a company
of nearly 100 masked men, white and
colored, took the prisoners out and
hanged them.
A Person o objectionable Character
New York, March3.-The jury, in
the action brought by Minnie Clark,
who calls herself Mrs. Mary Kittson,
against her husband, Hercules Kittson,
the young son al Commodore Kittson,
for a legal separation, on the ground Of
his abandonment, to-day decided that,
although there had been a ceremony
Of marriage, yet at the time the de-
PENDANT was incapable Of entering into
any such contract, because of his be-
ing intoxicated. The jury also found
that plaintiff and defendant have not
cohabited as husband and wife, and
that she ia a nerson Of uuasfiOnah1o